Messenger Login

[Gerry]

I have Windows Messenger 4.7, the one that came with
windows xp. Everytime I click on the messenger icon, it
logs me directly in with the hotmail account I put in the
first time. How can I prevent it from doing this? I
would like it to work the way MSN used to. It would bring
up the sign-on screen and I could enter whatever username
and password I wanted before logging in.

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

Greetings Gerry,

To turn off the automatic login, click the Start Button, then click the Control Panel. Then,
click User Accounts in the Control Panel. Select your account name, and then on the left side
of the screen, under Related Tasks, click 'Manage my Network Passwords'. In the window that
opens, click the Passport.Net\* (Passport) entry and click 'Remove'.
____________________________________________
Jonathan Kay
Windows MVP, Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com

"Gerry" > wrote in message ...
> I have Windows Messenger 4.7, the one that came with
> windows xp. Everytime I click on the messenger icon, it
> logs me directly in with the hotmail account I put in the
> first time. How can I prevent it from doing this? I
> would like it to work the way MSN used to. It would bring
> up the sign-on screen and I could enter whatever username
> and password I wanted before logging in.

[Gerry]

Thanks, Jonathan, perhaps you can help me with another
problem, I left an email earlier, I have cut and pasted
it below:
"Prior to upgrading to Windows XP Pro, my friend and I
used to be able so send files via the transfer feature in
MSN Messenger. We both had MSN Messenger. He had
Windows ME and I had Windows 2000. We never had a
problem. Then he upgraded to Windows XP Pro, and
everytime we would try to transfer files the file would
look like it was downloading, you would see the status
bar advancing. Then right when the file would be done, I
would get a message stating: "Transfer of file <file
name> was declined by <sender's name>." The thing is, it
was not declined. I was the receiver in this case. He
has Windows XP Pro and I was using Windows 2000. He was
using Windows Messenger, then he downloaded MSN Messenger
5.X and we have same problem with that. Just recently I
upgraded to Windows XP Pro, and we tried this again using
Windows Messenger, and we still get the error message.
Now I do use Zone Alarm Pro, however, I disabled it and
we still had same problem. Any ideas what is happening
here?"

Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Gerry

>-----Original Message-----
>Greetings Gerry,
>
>To turn off the automatic login, click the Start Button,
then click the Control Panel. Then,
>click User Accounts in the Control Panel. Select your
account name, and then on the left side
>of the screen, under Related Tasks, click 'Manage my
Network Passwords'. In the window that
>opens, click the Passport.Net\* (Passport) entry and
click 'Remove'.
>____________________________________________
>Jonathan Kay
>Windows MVP, Messenger
>Associate Expert
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
>Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
>
>"Gerry" > wrote in message
...
>> I have Windows Messenger 4.7, the one that came with
>> windows xp. Everytime I click on the messenger icon,
it
>> logs me directly in with the hotmail account I put in
the
>> first time. How can I prevent it from doing this? I
>> would like it to work the way MSN used to. It would
bring
>> up the sign-on screen and I could enter whatever
username
>> and password I wanted before logging in.
>
>
>.
>